---
name: "youtube-download"
section: "1p"
platform: "linux"
package: "libwww-youtube-download-perl"
version: "0.65+dfsg-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/youtube-download"
---

# youtube-download(1p)

youtube-download - Download video(s) from YouTube

## NAME

youtube-download.pl - youtube-download - Download video(s) from YouTube

## VERSION

version 0.65

## SYNOPSIS

```
  $ youtube-download bT8yLWy4B5w
  $ youtube-download http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT8yLWy4B5w
  $ youtube-download < video_list_file
```

## OPTIONS

- \-C, --no-colors

  Force disable colored output

- \-o, --output

  output filename, supports \`{$value}\` format (default: {video\_id}.{suffix})

- \-i, --interval

  Download interval (default: 1 (sec))

- \-p

  Use the given proxy. Requires LWP::Protocol::socks to be installed for socks proxies. See examples for syntax. (default: no proxy)

- \-e, --encode

  File system encoding (default: utf8)

- \-s, --skip

  Skip downloading a video, if target file exists.

- \-f, --force

  Force overwrite output file (default: disabled)

- \-n, --dry-run

  Do not download any videos, but print their target filenames, as defined by -o option. This option still sends query to Google servers to fetch details about given video.

- \-F, --fmt

  Video quality (SEE ALSO Wikipedia)

- \-v, --verbose

  Turns on chatty output (default: enabled)

- \-U, --url

  Show playback URL of a video, but do not download it

- \-P, --progress

  Show progress bar if you have Term::ProgressBar

- \-q, --quiet

  Turns off the most output

- \-h, --help

  Display help

- \-m, --man

  Display help page

- \-V, --version

  Display version

- \--user-agent

  Supply your own user agent string

### supported \`{$value}\` format

{video\_id} / {user} / {title} / {fmt} / {suffix} / {resolution}

```
  Example:
  $ youtube-download -o "[{video_id}] {title}.{suffix}"
  $ youtube-download -p socks://127.0.0.1:4321/ -o "{title} by {user} (youtube {video_id}).{suffix}"
```

## AUTHOR

xaicron \<xaicron {@} cpan.org\>

## COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Yuji Shimada.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.